Weaknesses of two deputies in the Bundestag had recently started a debate on the workload in Parliament. As a result, the night sessions are expected to be phased out in the foreseeable future.
Michael Grosse-Brömer, the first parliamentary managing director of the Union Group, told the "Neue Osnabrücker Zeitung": "We have agreed by a majority of the parliamentary executives to a sensible and practicable streamlining of the plenary session."
Meetings until the early hours could be avoided, the CDU politician said. Accordingly, most debates are to be shortened from 38 to 30 minutes. Five agenda items would be brought forward to Wednesday from Thursday, which had been debated again and again until the morning, on Wednesday, writes the newspaper. The parliamentary question time, which is scheduled on Wednesday, is shortened by half an hour to 60 minutes.
Only the AfD rejects the reform. Grosse-Broomer said: "This shows once again that this party has no interest in a good culture of debate and does not pay enough attention to the staff of the Bundestag." The accusation dismissed AfD parliamentary spokesman Christian Lüth.
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Majority seems given - even if the AfD blocked
As a rule, changes to the plenary session must be decided unanimously by the Council of Elders. If the AfD on Thursday in the panel in their resistance, will be voted in the next week's session in plenary on the reform, said a spokesman for the Union Group of the newspaper. Here then a majority is sure.
On 7 November, the CDU politician Matthias Hauer collapsed during a speech. Later, the Left MP Simone Barrientos suffered a faint on the same day. This had led to discussions about the working hours of MEPs.
